Quarantine Week 4

This week we learned that schools would be closed for the remainder of the school year.  Even though I knew this was a good possibility the finality of it was very emotional, disappointing and overwhelming for us all.  Ashton (and I) are so sad his Kinder year came to an end so abruptly.  We miss Mrs. Spengler so much.  He keeps saying "Why can't Mrs. Spengler be my teacher every year?"

We miss our family, friends, teachers, parks, shopping, organized sports and so much more. We also canceled our Maui trip this week.

Sadly seeing everyone in masks is the new norm, which to me is very creepy and depressing.

This week was "Spring Break" for the kids which meant teachers didn't assign any new work.  I tried to make it fun.  The kids came up with fun activities they wanted to do each day: ice cream sundaes for lunch, Spa Day (Colbie gave Ash and I pedicures), Game Day, and a sibling sleepover in the basement. We did our best!

A few things that did fill my bucket this week was a Zoom call with my class, the sunshine (the kids ran through the spikinler when it was 55 degress), and drinking White Claws (6 feet away) with Beth in her backyard to celebrate her birthday!  We have also found it quite peaceful to watch the birds on our back deck (we got a new bird feeder) and paint rocks.